This Request for Applications (RFA) is issued under a five-year program entitled Promoting Rule of Law in Georgia (PROLoG) Activity. The program is carried out based on a Cooperative Agreement between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the East-West Management Institute (EWMI), a New York based not-for-profit organization. The purpose of PROLoG is to strengthen the justice system to ensure due process, judicial independence, and the protection of human rights.

PROLoG supports the civil society in working towards these goals, primarily through supporting the Coalition for an Independent and Transparent Judiciary uniting NGOs with an aim to promote civil society engagement and government accountability for ensuring independence and transparency of the judicial system.

The goal of the program is to assist effective advocacy initiatives with an aim of increasing judicial independence and transparency, protecting human rights, including due process rights, and promoting equality and non-discrimination. The initiatives may be aimed at exploring problems of implementation of already initiated reforms; carrying out advocacy to address institutional issues that have not been reflected in legislative changes and /or have not yet been rooted in practice; empowering individual judges; monitoring and assessing high-profile cases that can have political implications; carrying out advocacy work on justice sector-related issues of heightened importance in the post-election environment; carrying out advocacy related to equality and anti-discrimination; and other initiatives meeting general objectives of PROLoG.

The activities may include studies, monitoring, and advocacy campaigns. The aim is to achieve tangible improvements in law and practice as well as institutional strength of the justice system.   

Funding Information

The grant award for each proposal is $15,000-25,000 for 5-7 months projects.

Grant funds may be used for the following: 

• Expenses related to the collection of data;
• Direct costs for project-related events;
• Communication between partner organizations, e.g. phone, e-mail;
• Pro-rated portion of salaries for key participants, e.g. director, accountant;
• Purchase of a limited amount of equipment (e.g. computer, software) and stationery;
• Other expenses directly related to project implementation
• Applicants should    provide a cost share in the amount of 5% of the funds requested from PROLoG. Higher contributions are welcome.

Eligibility Criteria

The competition is open for NGOs as well as unregistered citizen groups. Applicants may team up with other organizations (Coalition members or organizations that are not the members of the Coalition) and submit joint proposals. 

For more information, visit USAID.